It is a very great pleasure to be here.

This is the first glimpse I have ever had of the big trees.

I am glad to have seen you.

I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

We must go on with the task as we have begun it.

It is a peculiar pleasure to me to address the children.

The one thing on which this country must forever be a unit is the navy.

We should keep the trees as we should keep great stretches of the wildernesses as a heritage for our children and our children's children.

I shall only say how glad I am to be here, bid you welcome with all my heart, and say how thoroughly I believe in you, and that I am a better American for being among you.

We must have a first-class navy.

I am, oh, so glad to be here.

I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me.

A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, cannot afford to neglect its navy.

Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place.

I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great.

It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans.

In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent, and here I am addressing an American audience with the same ideals, the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same purposes, that the audiences have on the Atlantic seaboard, or in the Mississippi Valley.